Chapter I. to relieve certain Persons therein named from the legal and political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. I.— An Act to relieve certain Persons therein named from the legal and political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes.Dec. 14, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* (two-thirds of each House concurring therein,) That all legal and political disabilities imposed by theLegal and political disabilities removed from certain persons in fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, by reason of participation in the late rebellion, be, and they hereby are, removed from the following persons, namely:
ALABAMA.Alabama; Robert Ware, of Blount county; J. J. Cowden and Elijah Self, of Jefferson county; Alexander McKinstry and John R. Tompkins, of Mobile county; N. B. Mardis, of Shelby county; John S. Morange, Henry W. Pickens, H. K. Wickle, and Jeptha Edwards, of Etowah county; J. A. McCutcheon and Absalom Jackson, of Elmore county; G. T. Yelverton, of Coffee county; T. G. Cornish, of Marengo county; Samuel F. Palmer, Dr. Peter Bryce, of Tuscaloosa county, and Charles C. Crowe, of Perry county;
Joseph W. Phillips, of Lee county; Robert D. Sims, Michael Burk, and Frank E. Saurin, of Lowndes county; George McDuffy, of Marion county; W. A. J. Swan, George Forrister, and Z. M. Hutchins, of Randolph county; Elias M. Kiels, of Barbour county; J. H. Weaver and William H. Ogbourne, of Montgomery county; A. J. Due, of Elmore county; A. A. West, of Clay county; Eph Latham, of Jackson county; Charles A. Edwards, Jesse R. Jones, Charles S. G. Doster, of Autauga county; and W. B.
Modawell, of Perry county. ARKANSAS.Arkansas. Yancey B. Shapard, of Pope county; Levander Sykes and James H. Low, of Johnson county; Wilson C. Jones, of *Vell* [Yell] county; James E. White, Frank Clark, Thomas H. Clark, James I. Hudson, and John T. Chidester, of Ouachita county; E. W. Gantt, S. L. Griffith, P. O. Hooper, and E. W. Garrett, of Pulaski county; Alexander Mason, of608FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1. 1869. Calhoun county; John H. Askew, of Union county; F. M.
Chrisman,Legal and political disabilities removed from certain persons in Isaac Chrisman, W. R. Coody, and W. P. Cole, of White county. GEORGIA.Georgia; Noah L. Cloud, of Decatur county; William F. Wright, of Coweta county; Foster Blodgett and W. C. Dillon, of Richmond county; H. H. Pettis and John L. Harris, of Fulton county; George H. Lester, of Oglethorpe county; W. W. Paine, of Chatham county; William H. Edwards and Amos T. Akerman, of Elbert county; F. B. Hascal, of Jones county;
T. W. Thurmond, of Spalding county; T. W. King, of Monroe county; E. C. Granniss, of Bibb county; John C. Hendrix, of Atlanta county; James M. Bishop, Jesse Hendricks, and William Kelly, of Dawson county; Robert D. Harvey, of Floyd county; William D. Bentley, of Forsyth county; Enoch Humphreys, of Gordon county; G. M. T. Ware, of Pierce county; G. T. Davis, of Brooks county; E. S. Griffin and James Hammock, of Twiggs county; John R. Hill, E. Richardson, and J. M. Cooper, of Dougherty county;
Benjamin Conley, of Richmond county; B. B. DeGraffenriede, of Baldwin county; James W. Green, of Upson county; Nathan Gunnels, of Banks county; Thomas J. Speer, of Pike county; Henry C. Wayne, of city of Brunswick; Charles D. Davis, of Walton county; J. W. B. Somers, of Newton county; Joel F. Thornton, of Greene county; William R. Davis, George M. Hood, and Charles P. McCalla, of Richmond county; William M. Moore, of Warren county; Dickerson H. Walker, of Walton county; Dr. Thomas F.
Green, of Milledgeville; Joseph McWhorter, of Oglethorpe county. TENNESSEE.Tennessee; C. B. Davis, of Lawrence county; Hiram Crabtree, John R. Knight, John Jones, of Jackson county; Edward Isaac Golladay and R. E. Thompson, of Wilson county; Robert Forquaharson, of Lincoln county; James Russ, of Shelby county; John Alley, of Sequatchie county; John E. Pyatt, J. C. Wasson, W. N. Ault, and J. L. Abernathy, of Rhea county; Stephen Matthews, of Blount county; H. S. Young, of Macon county;
Walter R. Evans, of Claiborne county; John P. Murry, William H. Botts, and Allen Dewhett, of Jackson county; James Monroe Meek, of Jefferson county; and James H. Randolph, of Cocke county. SOUTH CAROLINA.South Carolina; James M. Martin, of Abbeville county; Ainsley H. Monteith and W. Hutson Wigg, of Richland county; N. G. W. Walker and Thomas J. Webb, of Anderson county; E. M. Whiting and J. F. Green, of Charleston county; W. P. Gill, Eli Cornwall, and William McAlily, of Chester county;
J. R. Linder, of Colleton county; J. B. Gatlin, of Darlington county; S. T. Atkinson, of Georgetown county; W. W. Boyce and Calvin Brice, of Fairfield county; H. P. Hammett and F. C. Gower, of Greenville county; C. B. Sawis, of Horry county; Reuben Gross and Samuel J. Stuart, of Lexington county; Elly Godbold, of Marion county; John W. A. Hartness, of York county; W. D. Johnson, of Marlboro county; George W. H. Legg, of Spartansburg county; Daniel Keels and R. S. Mellett, of Sumter county.
WEST VIRGINIA.West Virginia; Gilbert M. De L. Smith, Jefferson county. LOUISIANA.Louisiana. John L. Lewis, Claiborne parish; B. L. Lynch, New Orleans. 609 KENTUCKY.Legal and political disabilities removed from certain persons inKentucky; Philip Lee, Horatio W. Bruce, Francis Hagan, Richard C. Wintersmith, and Blanton Duncan, Louisville; D. Howard Smith, Franklin county; Charles B. Thomas, Lexington, Fayette county; John M. Elliott, Owingsville, Bath county; A. L. McAfee and John T.
Hogan, Jessamine county; William E. Kellar, Mercer county; Thomas W. Napier and J. Warren Grigsby, Lincoln county; A. J. Beale and James A. Frazier, Harrison county; Henry A. Huston and J. K. Huey, Paducah; Charles Duncan, Pendleton county; J. P. Nichols and William Dickinson, Barren county; William E. Bell and John F. Wills, Anderson county; James W. Schooling, Marion county; T. P. A. Bibb, Boone county; D. O. Harris, Woodford county; R. T. Owen, Shelby county; Paschal R. Baker, Carrol county;
Robert Riddell, junior, Estell county. NORTH CAROLINA.North Carolina. J. H. Carson, of Ash county; Abram Bryan, of Alleghany county; John Ballard, J. R. Hargrave, Nathaniel Knight, James A. Leak, and John A. Boyden, of Anson county; Joseph W. Beasley and John W. Sissoms, of Bertie county; J. J. D. Lucas, J. W. Purdie, and John A. Richardson, of Bladen county; William Lankford, John Laning, Lawson A. Laning, James W. Walker, Lott Pitman, Reverend T. W. Atkin, John Souther, G. M.
Roberts, John Smart, G. L. Penland, George Whitman, J. M. Wells, Hughey Brooks, and William Ducker, of Buncombe county; Richard C. Cook, Caleb Phifer, James M. Brown, Nelson Slough, William M. Coleman, and Kiah P. Harris, of Cabarrus county; James C. Harper, of Caldwell county; Jonas Cline, Caleb Setzer, William Hale, Andrew H. Shuford, Mathew L. McCorkle, Adolphus L. Shuford, James T. Johnson, Ephraim Yount, Moses Barger, David Whistenhurst, Marcus L. Fry, H. M. Hallman, and G.
M. Yoder, of Catawba county; J. H. Headen, of Chatham county; James M. Higgins, of Cherokee county; John M. Jones, William R. Houghton, and William A. Moore, of Chowan county; Martin C. Roberts, Rufus Roberts, W. W. Green, and Joseph W. Wilson, of Cleveland county; W. W. Pate and J. A. Maultsby, of Columbus county; W. McL. McKay, Archibald McLean, John W. Lett, James A. McRae, Willie T. Rhodes, William A. Banks, J. C. Poe, William R. Love, and Hamilton McMillan, of Cumberland county;
J. W. Thomas, J. J. Martin, and William F. Henderson, of Davidson county; William A. Allen, of Duplin county; John Marshall Bell and John M. Beck, of Davie county; Joshua Killabrew, of Edgecombe county; R. L. Patterson and N. S. Cook, of Forsyth county; Russell H. Kingsbury, Robert B. Gilliam, Isaac J. Young, R. D. Jones, John C. Usrey, C. M. Rogers, A. H. Cook, L. A. Paschal, J. J. Ellison, and S. S. Harrill, of Granville county; C. H. Harper and H. H. Best, of Greene county;
G. M. Isley, David Cobb, R. S. Sechrist, R. W. Glenn, Arrington Dillworth, Abel Gardner, junior, Nathan Hint, Joseph A. Houston, William P. Heath, Alexander H. Lindsay, John McLean, Elihu Starbuck, Moses D. Young, Emanuel Dean, Stephen Hussey, Edward Morgan, Jacob A. Mick, Shubal G. Coffin, and Anselom Reid, of Guilford county; Neal S. Stewart and Benjamin F. Shaw, of Harnett county; P. S. Brittain, of Henderson county; James M. Trader and Starkey S. Harrell, of Hertford county;
James W. Williams, D. M. Furchase, Wilfred Turner, John H. Dalton, A. F. Gaither, John C. Hargrave, James S. Bently, Thomas N. Cooper, Perry Tomlin, R. J. McDowell, and Moses A. White, of Iredell county; W. W. Munday, Dr. C. L. Hunter, James M. Smith, Richard E. Burch, John D. Shaw, Franklin Howard, Joseph Shelton, John F. Phifer, Robert Nixon, Isaac Lowe, and D. A. Lowe, of Lincoln county; David W. Siler, of Macon county; W. F. Craig, C. L.610 Corpening, and Uriah Ownby, of McDowell county;
Clement Dowd, ofLegal and political disabilities removed from certain persons inNorth Carolina; Mecklenburg county; J. W. Bowman, M. C. Phelps, A. A. Congleton, J. R. Doughty, J. W. Chadwick, and J. M. Grizzard, of Mitchell county; Jesse S. Spencer, of Montgomery county; Thomas Rollins, Samuel E. Johnson, John McNeil, Alexander Kelly, and John H. McLean, of Moore county; Patrick Murphey, Manger London, John J. Conoley, John H. Brooks, and W. M. Monroe, of New Hanover county; W.
N. Patterson, James C. Turentine, William F. Strayhorn, William F. Patterson, George Laws, S. J. Norwood, James Wells, W. T. Buxton, J. W. Carr, W. A. Harris, D. C. Guyther, J. W. Stroud, H. M. C. Stroud, and W. H. Hogan, of Orange county; G. W. Cox, of Pitt county; J. H. Allen, of Polk county; Jesse Steed, Joseph Reece, Wiley Smith, and Henry Craven, of Randolph county; Charles P. Powell, D. N. Patterson, and A. J. McQueen, of Richmond county; Joseph Lee, Richmond Lee, Moses Warwick, Murphy C.
McNair, Alexander McRae, William McRae, John A. Rowland, Giles Leitch, and Thomas J. Morissey, of Robeson county; Dr. James G. Ramsey, Thomas B. Long, James H. Ennis, William M. Kincaid, M. A. Agner, Thomas Barber, Isaac A. Witherspoon, John A. Bradshaw, David Barringer, Henry Barringer, Jesse Thomasson, Jacob Fraley, William H. Bailey, William S. Martin, Tillman Cranferd, Moses L. Holmes, William D. Haywood, Wellington L. Kestler, A. H. Boyden, Mumford S. McKenzie, William T.
Martin, John Sloop, John H. Creso, and A. J. Mock, of Rowan county; J. B. Eaves and D. D. Allen, of Rutherford county; Peter A. Wilson, of Salem county; William Daughtry, James C. Williams, Hardy Daughtry, James C. Autry, John A. Oates, Leonard Godwin, Wilson Lockamy, Henry T. Jackson, Daniel McKinnon, Hardy L. Spell, James R. Maxwell, James K. Morrissey, of Sampson county; Samuel Reeves, senior, and Samuel Reeves, junior, of Salisbury; Doctor W. W. McCanless, A. H. Lindsey, Thomas E.
Cook, and E. S. Dean, of Stokes county; H. C. Hampton, Gideon Bryan, Hugh Gwyn, Nathaniel A. Boyden, of Surry *country* [county]; George Orr, of Transylvania county; James E. Irby, A. S. Crowell, and S. S. S. McCauley, of Union county; Rufus H. Tucker, William D. Haywood, James H. Foote, T. W. Young, Henderson H. Hodge, George W. Fentress, Calvin E. Parish, J. W. Estes, and S. J. Norman, of Wake county; B. C. Cook, A. T. McCallum, and James Manning, of Washington county; Benjamin F.
Petty, C. L. Cook, Fletcher A. Harris, and Elisha Welborne, of Wilkes county; Alvin Bagley, of Wilson county; William W. Long, Joseph Williams, Nicholas L. Williams, B. B. Benham, and Thomas S. Martin, of Yadkin county; Leander Ray, John G. Marlow, and Adam Snow, of Yancy county; Jasper Etheridge, of Onslow county; James D. Bridges, John Purcell, John Gilchrist, John Wilkes, Calvin Black, Hector McLean, Alexander Purcell, John H. McEachern, N. A. McLean, Giles Leitch, John A.
Rowland, Thomas J. Morrissey, William A. Dick, Joseph Thompson, Willis Moore, William J. Brown, Angus D. Brown, Murphy McNair, of Robeson county; Richard W. King, Pinkney Hardee, Lemuel H. Aldridge, of Lenoir county; Willie Daniel, of Wilson county; C. L. Sayre and Frank Darley, of Washington City; Egbert R. Watson, of Virginia; George B. Myers, of Marshall county, Mississippi. MISSISSIPPI.Mississippi. Attala county: E. M. Wells, Samuel Young, S. C. Conley, E. H. Sanders, W. J.
Wasson, N. C. Wasson, David Wasson, Jason Niles, A. J. Boyd, D. W. S. Sanders, A. M. Chestnut, John A. Wasson, Alexander Wasson, E. L. Carnes, Rasselas Boyd, David Carr, and C. G. Harris. Adams county: Robert W. Wood, W. H. Forbes, Thomas J. Harrison. Clarke county: Will Hancock. Claiborne county: E. H. Stiles, A. J. Lewis, and Joshua S. Morris. Copiah county: William M. Deason, M. H. Peyton, Uriah611 Millsnapps, Ephraim G. Peyton, jr., and Samuel P. Harvey. CarrollLegal and political disabilities removed from certain persons inMississippi. county:
William T. Townsend and Benjamin T. Marshall. Coahoma county: A. S. Dowd. Chickasaw county: C. C. Moore, J. T. Pulliman, Jacob A. Loughridge, and Thomas D. Hamilton. Calhoun county: Samuel A. Spencer, Tillman Bryan, S. J. Taylor, C. E. Murphy, E. B. M. Hillhouse, H. J. Hawkins, Hiram Hall, and W. Emby. De Soto county: E. J. Lipsey, Samuel B. McNeace, Francis Holmes, C. F. West, L. B. F. Robinson, John W. McCarkle, George E. Harris, William P. Eason, W. A. Nelson, S. D. Irvin, Henry Dockery, Thomas C.
Dockery, and James H. Scafe. Franklin county: Nathan Bunkley and William K. Magee. Holmes county: S. S. Montgomery, Sampson Botters, A. M. Green, John A. Carson, W. A. West, George W. Cole, Erastus Hoskins, Charles T. Murphey, J. F. House, E. B. Sproales, A. W. McDonald, B. W. Moore, and R. T. Bush. Hinds county: J. L. Carter, John Duncan, and A. N. Kimball. Jefferson county: William Thompson, James Archer, Porterfield Farley, and Putnam Darden, P. K. Montgomery. Kemper county:
Moses G. Hollford, W. W. Chrisholm, B. F. Rush, E. R. Fowler. Leake county: H. H. Howard. Lowndes county: James M. Prewitt and J. A. Orr. Lauderdale county: James W. Brooke, Robert E. Leachman, J. W. McMullen, Elisha Mosely, and David C. Smith. Leake county: John A. Hanson. George B. Myers, Marshall county. Lee county: Jesse V. Bell. Madison county: T. C. Tupper, George Moorman, and M. M. Peyton. Noxubee county: Madison Edwards, T. G. Richardson, William A. Haynes, S. Huckaby, E.
A. J. McHenry, James S. Holt, and Charles B. Ames. Oktibbeha county: W. C. Bishop. Pontotoc county: Paul Dunn, George Wiley, C. Culling, Abner Shuttle, and J. L. Morphis. Tishemingo county: John E. Gillenwaters, F. A. Beazley, Ephraim F. Haynie, William L. Paine, Sylvester J. Allen, Robert J. Fleming, Joel Gillenwaters, Frank E. McCalla, W. H. Dodson, James McAmis, W. H. Janes, Barton B. Boone, O. Lucas, T. D. Duncan, Hamilton Mask, James W. Harper, and Luther W. Redus. Tippah county:
M. Nelmes. Winston county: M. A. Metts. Wilkinson county: James M. Miller, senior, and William C. Miller. Warren county: J. Harry Thomas, H. P. Simrall, and W. R. Wadsworth. Yazoo county: A. B. Johnson. Monroe county: B. L. Hatch, Richard Richardson, Vicksburg; John Duncan, of Jackson, Mississippi. VIRGINIA.Virginia. Albemarle county: William Wertembaker, John Wood, junior, Andrew J. Brown, William T. Early, D. W. Burnley, Ezra M. Wolfe, Thomas W. Wood, J. H. Rives, John H. Bibb, and Alexander Rives.
Accomac county: E. P. Pitts. Augusta county: Dr. Francis T. Stribling, J. N. Ryan, William A. Burnett, Reuben D. Hill, B. F. Fifer, Robert G. Bickle, and David C. McGuffin. Bedford county: S. B. Wright, Charles A. Bower. Botetourt county: W. Martin and W. E. M. Wood. Buckingham county: William A. Moss, J. Hill, Albert Baldwin, John M. Jordan, J. E. Morgan, P. R. Patterson, and Z. C. Vaughn. Campbell county: John W. Burton, R. S. Burton, C. D. Flynn. Caroline county: Myer Angle, junior.
Charlotte county: Paul V. Adams and H. A. Carrington. Chesterfield county: Francis C. Moss. Clarke county: Joseph F. Ryan. Charles City county: B. A. Nance. Dinwiddie county: Robert Bolling, Thomas H. Boisseau, and I. H. Smith. Elizabeth City county: John F. Segar and Thomas G. Segar. Essex county: P. R. Saunders. Fauquier county: Alexander Lanis, W. M. Hume, Nimrod T. Ashby, John S. Burn, P. H. Hale, and E. J. Smith. Fairfax county: Alexander Innis. Floyd county: B. P. Elliot, A.
J. Kirby, and F. A. Winston. Fluvanna county: Thomas H. Tutwiler. Franklin county: William E. Andrews, John L. Dillard, W. T. Wright, Morris W. Wil-612liams, Jeffrey Woody, E. C. Murphy, Charles Perdue, John Pelter, WilliamLegal and political disabilities removed from certain persons inVirginia. Cooper, Allen Woody, Jenkins M. Oxley, Samuel G. Mattox, Silas G. Bernard, Cyrus E. Pinckard, Joseph Heckman, Marshall Jamerson, Jesse Brunty, Robert A. Scott, John Wade. Frederick county:
Henry M. Brent, junior. Grayson county: L. H. Bryant and E. L. Dickey. Green county: W. S. Beazley. Giles county: R. G. Banks. Halifax county: J. B. Storall. Hanover county: William C. Wickham, John Page, Thomas M. White, George W. Doswell, J. A. Wingfield, Joseph T. Priddy, and James M. Taylor. Henrico county: Thomas M. Kimbrough, W. A. Bennett, George N. Gwathney, M. M. Lipscomb, Thomas Dodamead, Frederick Butler, Samuel Ellis, Peter W. Ralston, William H. Richardson, Jesse T.
Hutchinson, J. A. Lynham, and Albert P. Bennett. Henry county: George D. Gravely, C. Y. Thomas, John F. Pedigo, John T. Hamlett, W. F. Bullington, R. J. Wells, John H. Mathews, John H. Pedigo. James City county: S. T. Bowman and C. M. Hubbard. King William county: James B. Green. King George county: Thacker Rogers. Lancaster county: Thomas M. Wiatt. Louisa county: M. M. Ogg, Andrew J. Perkins, Daniel H. Perkins, George W. Trice, David M. Hunter, W. W. Bird. Montgomery county:
James C. Taylor, Thomas R. Childress. Nansemond county: Peter B. Prentis. Nelson county: Seaton H. Loving, John H. Pamplin, C. T. Smith. Northampton county: William G. Riley, R. H. Read, John S. Parker. Nottoway county: John Overton, G. C. Blend. Norfolk county: Edward H. Williams, C. W. Murdaugh, E. W. Anderson. Prince Edward county: R. S. Hines, B. S. Hooper, H. R. Hooper, John V. Miller, Robert D. Miller, and Frank D. Redd. Prince George county: W. W. Caldwell, J. A. Hair, F.
W. Parker. Patrick county: Murray Turner, Larkin G. Rucker, Samuel W. Davis, Asa Wood, Benjamin J. Campbell, and William W. Stoops. Powhatan county: William T. Davis. Pulaski County: John B. Baskerville, Lewis A. Buckingham, C. E. Doddridge. Page county: William Campbell. Petersburg City: W. T. Joynes, D. W. Lassiter, E. O. Hinton, James B. Stewart, Alexander Domian, and John R. Hinton. Pittsylvania county: John F. Ficklen, J. W. McKinsey, and John W. Jones. Prince Edward county:
Littleton A. Warren. Rappahannock county: F. H. Bruce, B. I. Holland, Willis Browning, and Patrick McCracken. Rockbridge county: James G. Paxton, D. E. Moore, George A. Baker, and David J. Whipple. Rockingham county: John T. Harris. Richmond county: W. W. Rains. Roanoke county: Zebulon Boon, Jacob L. Frier, and Alfred T. Dillard. Russell county: A. C. Ferguson, Thomas H. Garrett, William Johnson, Samuel H. Nash, Thomas J. Riley, B. D. Seacott, William J. Dickinson, Thomas C. M.
Alderson, James H. Dickinson, and Jacob C. Gent. Shenandoah county: Franklin H. Wisler and Jesse C. McKay. Smyth county: Thomas H. Thurman, W. P. Francis, J. M. Pruner, and James B. Lowden. Spotsylvania county: James B. Sener. Washington county: D. C. Dunn, W. C. Edmondson, R. W. Hughes, Leonidas Baugh, John D. Cosby, and C. McDougal. Wise county: Robert P. Dickerson. Westmoreland county: R. A. Claybrook. Stafford county: R. C. Moncure, Kennon Whiting, and Joseph Christian. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all persons from whom the disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution ofPersons relieved from disabilities and elected, &c. to office, to take the oath pre-scribed by1868, ch. 189.Vol. xv. p. 85. the United States have been or shall be removed, and who have been or shall be elected or appointed to any office or place of trust in or under the government of the United States, or of either of the States or Territories, shall, before entering upon the duties thereof, take and subscribe the oath prescribed in the act approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled “An act prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have been removed,” instead of the oath prescribed in the act approved July second,613FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 1, 2. 1869. Ch. 15, 16. 1870. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act to prescribe an oath1862, ch. 128.Vol. xii. p. 502. of office, and for other purposes,” anything in any other act to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, December 14, 1869.